Focusing on the cane, Joan Caleodis cautiously walked into the situation on Wednesday is just the first of people who legitimately purchased medical marijuana in Ohio.

Caleodis, who is 55 years old and suffers with multiple sclerosis paid $ 150 for 3 containers, any of which is of 2.83 grams. dried flowers of cannabis at the dispensary CY + megapolis Wintersville.

“I feel ecstatic,” Caleodis told reporters, as the other martyrs, the pain of waiting applauded part. "Patients no longer need to wait for relief. We can get rid of this difficulty with opioids in this country.”

Caleodis said, actually what felt like more than any other when I got home and tried out a private purchase.

“I was curious, and I'm pretty happy with the quality," she told NBC News. "Some days are worse than others, but I feel a significant degree of long-term pain, and at the moment no.”

In the past, a municipal employee who went on disability subsequently 27 years at work, Kaleodis said, in fact that she was prescribed opioids for pain subsequently such as she was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis more than 8 years ago.

“I noticed, actually that I take on twice the prescribed amount, and said to myself:” I do not go this way," she said. "This is definitely than any other.”

While marijuana honey is now available in the state of Bakai, it's unclear whether the change will put a dent in the state's opioid epidemic. Ohio is considered one of the" top 5 States with the highest rates of opioid overdose deaths, " according to the National Institute for drug abuse.

Medical marijuana dispensaries are regulated in Ohio by the municipal drug Council. When asked whether the government views the legal pot as a likely weapon in the fight against the deadly opioid epidemic, the Council Commissioner replied: "the country has no official politicians in this regard.”

That same question was asked a fresh Governor Mike DeWine, who as attorney General has filed a lawsuit opposite drug firms for flooding their own country with analyticheski. His team sent a reporter to the municipal drug Board.

Douglas Berman, Ohio state Institute law doctor and author of a reputable blog about law and sentencing politician, said: “the simple answer is Yes, I believe it will undoubtedly help.”

But, said Berman, while the epidemic was caused by people who abuse opioids prescribed by medical professionals, the latest data on the death talking about the fact that promptly made smaller tasks.

"The death from an overdose of a recent crop is associated with cocaine and methamphetamine mixed with fentanyl,” he said, having in the form of methamphetamines.

Berman away is not a single specialist waiting to see if marijuana honey will have any impact on opioid decline. Let's look at the proper answers that were seen last summer on an online forum sponsored by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of social health.

"There is some suggestive confirmation of this, in fact that marijuana has the ability to help reduce the use of opioids," doctor Caleb Alexander, Co-founder of the center for drug protection and Effectivenesss at Bloomberg school placed. “There is still some confirmation of the reverse.”

Rosalie, Liccardo Pakula, co-Director of the research centre for drug policy at RAND, said in that same forum, in fact she supports the expansion of programs of medical marijuana, but “I don't believe actually that this is important is the effect on opioid epidemic. “

"The bulk of people replacing cannabis with opioids do not use any drugs in medicine," she wrote. "More such studies do not demonstrate that cannabis is actually considered a substitute for heroin or fentanyl, the leading drivers of the epidemic now.”

Mark Parrino of the American Association for the treatment of opioid dependence said: "it is logical to play for the legalization of marijuana, while our state is struggling with an epidemic of opioid disorder.”

"But medical introduction of marijuana has an opportunity to be necessary in some cases, I don't think, actually that it is reasonable to promote marijuana as positive medical treatment”,-he wrote.

Caleodis said, in fact that anyone who thinks that marijuana actually can not help, must like her space. She pronounced, in fact that she had taken advantage of other "dark Bazaar" cannabis products in order to simplify her torment over the years.

"My signs are always there, I feel a burning sensation in my legs almost all the time,” she said. - And at night it's much worse. Sometimes I just can't sleep. But now I believe, exactly that will create this.”

The Ohio medical marijuana act was passed in 2016 and was signed into law by old Governor John Kasich, a Republican. It allows the introduction of cannabis to patients with at least some of the 21 defined criteria. And he insistently asks that all probable patients of medical marijuana regilis in Municipal medicinal Council.

Apart from this, patients are required to receive a “recommendation” from the doctor.

Doctors do not have every chance to put marijuana, due to the fact that the Federal government continues to systematize it as a product of the list 1.

In real time in Ohio there are only 4 dispensaries where people have every chance to buy marijuana, 2 in Wintersville and 2 in Canton and Sandusky. Officials said the fact that the queues were long at all of them on Wednesday.

According to the municipal generally recognized standards, marijuana is sold dried and in 2.93 packages of gr at $ 50 apiece, in fact that the manufacturers called " the tenth Ohio” Cincinnati.com told.